The Art of Real Food — Sea­sonal Recipes for every week of the Year by Joanne Neft and Laura Kenny. The cook­book is a fol­low up to the wildly pop­u­lar “Placer County Real Food,” which ignited an unprece­dented con­ver­sa­tion and move­ment around in-season food in North­ern Cal­i­for­nia over the past two years. “The Art of Real More Info »

Scratch cook­ing with local food, 52 weeks of the year. With 360 recipes and 280 pho­tos on 300 pages, the book is a pow­er­house of guide­lines for whole­some cook­ing and eat­ing. It is also JoanneNeft’s effort to help cooks find new ways to use local pro­duce dur­ing all sea­sons of the year.